This isn't really a new thing. I myself designed a city for people with autism. It had a series of interconnecting residence halls to facilitate the constant moving and redesign of living spaces for people with autism, lots of restaurants that served strange-looking and exotic foods, plenty of aquariums (since the only animals allowed would be service box jellyfish), animated billboards that would play loud and frenetically-animated advertisements for needed services, and of course tons of alleyways so that support personnel could suddenly jump out at anyone that needs assistance.

Yes, I expect all of my funding proposals for Aspergopolis to come through quite soon.

On the one hand, it sounds like it may be interesting. On the other hand, I work in a consulting role with a lot of landscape architects and the vast majority of them are blithering idiots. So, it could go either way.

Cagey B:This isn't really a new thing. I myself designed a city for people with autism. It had a series of interconnecting residence halls to facilitate the constant moving and redesign of living spaces for people with autism, lots of restaurants that served strange-looking and exotic foods, plenty of aquariums (since the only animals allowed would be service box jellyfish), animated billboards that would play loud and frenetically-animated advertisements for needed services, and of course tons of alleyways so that support personnel could suddenly jump out at anyone that needs assistance.

Yes, I expect all of my funding proposals for Aspergopolis to come through quite soon.

Heh.

If they could cope with that, they wouldn't qualify as autistic anymore.

Louisiana_Sitar_Club:On the one hand, it sounds like it may be interesting. On the other hand, I work in a consulting role with a lot of landscape architects and the vast majority of them are blithering idiots. So, it could go either way.

This, but ask an architect to describe an engineer and they'll say the same thing.

My favorite:

Engineer: Here's a survey scaled and rotated to real space. Everything is in decimal feet on state plane (insert system)

Louisiana_Sitar_Club:On the one hand, it sounds like it may be interesting. On the other hand, I work in a consulting role with a lot of landscape architects and the vast majority of them are blithering idiots. So, it could go either way.

Forbidden Doughnut:timujin: No one who has ever driven in Seattle would agree with that statement.

(this needs to be repeated)

/ knuckles still white

Having regularly driven in NYC, DC, Boston, Newark (NJ), Philly, and other supposed "don't drive there" cities, now I'm curious to see how Seattle stacks up.

/Newark is fine, Philly just has a lot of one-ways in inconvenient places, NYC teaches you aggressive driving skills, DC prepares you for the unexpected, and Boston... well, that was during the Big Dig years, so that was special. Boston is like combining Philly's one-ways with DC's shiatty drivers.

brimed03:Forbidden Doughnut: timujin: No one who has ever driven in Seattle would agree with that statement.

(this needs to be repeated)

/ knuckles still white

Having regularly driven in NYC, DC, Boston, Newark (NJ), Philly, and other supposed "don't drive there" cities, now I'm curious to see how Seattle stacks up.

/Newark is fine, Philly just has a lot of one-ways in inconvenient places, NYC teaches you aggressive driving skills, DC prepares you for the unexpected, and Boston... well, that was during the Big Dig years, so that was special. Boston is like combining Philly's one-ways with DC's shiatty drivers.

Seattle isn't farked up for the same reasons as places like New York (because the drivers are crazy) or Boston (because the roads were designed at a time when you only had carts pulled by horses) but because there don't seem to be any real thoroughfares, you can't seem to get from any one place to somewhere else without driving through a neighborhood and because the freeway was apparently designed by someone who hated the very idea of driving.

/I got caught in a place where the freeway split, with no sign denoting why, only to find that the side I was on ended up running parallel to the other with a concrete divider between them, for no reason I could see. It turned out that the other side was the one to take if you ever planned on exiting and mine was the side of "fark you, you're going five miles this way whether you like it or not"